RE: JBA - INVENTORY MANAGEMENT : LOT CONTROL -- SYSTEM21

Guy,

First, let me say that you'll be happier using 'N' instead of 'L' or 'B'... Using Lot Control within JBA is certainly more challenging for the people reporting the inventory movements. I would always recommend NOT using Lot Control if you don't absolutely have to. That being said, it should be far less painless to go from Lot Control "ON" to Lot Control "OFF"...!!!

Second, I cannot give you the "full implications" of this change... I strongly suggest that you contact your GEAC support team if you have a current maintenance contract. I'll tell you what I think I know.

Any bespoke (custom) code you have in place should be reviewed to determine if there will be any impact there. Also, if you are doing any bar code scanning there may be an impact there as well.

If you have a test environment you should definitely take full advantage of it in this case... Alternatively, you could nominate and change a few "test" parts at a time to see what impact this will have on the data flow and on the people in the operation... You have the luxury of making this switch gradually if you so choose. You don't have to change all the parts at once but you could.

The file that holds the lot balances, INP80, will need to be dealt with for sure. You will want to remove the record from INP80 for all parts where you change lot control flag to "N"... You must be sure that the integrity of the stockroom balance in INP60 is preserved. I am not sure if there are any other database considerations so I welcome any other comments...

Once the database changes are made your reporting of all inventory movements becomes much easier...

Just out of curiosity, what kind of commodity do you manufacture...? Furthermore, why would you have been using lot control in the past and suddenly not need to any more?

Good luck.

----Original Message Follows----
From: GGenevieve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reply-To: System 21 Users <system21@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jbausers-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SYSTEM21]   JBA - INVENTORY MANAGEMENT : LOT CONTROL
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:23:06 +0400

Hello All

      We have been using Lot Control 'L' & Batch control 'B'. We now want
to change back to 'N'.
      Can anyone tell if this is possible & what are the full implications?


Regards,
      Guy Alain

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